The “Break it Down” Blog

Well hell… Jens Eckels just sent in news that world-renound stunt man from our past, Evel Knievel, died at age 69 from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis. Reports state that in 1999 Knievel underwent a liver transplant after almost dying from Hepatitis C, which was likely caused from an earlier blood transfusion that was necessary after a particularly damaging stunt.

Another interesting thing I didn’t know about Knievel is that he was back in the spot-light recently suing Kanye West over his “Touch to Sky” video’s references to Knievel’s image with the costume and bike used in the video. Knievel was quoted as saying:

That video that Kanye West put out is the most worthless piece of crap I’ve ever seen in my life, and he uses my image to catapult himself on the public

Granted I don’t think West and Knievel will be having dinner any time soon and hanging out, but “catapult himself”? I’m pretty sure most people knew who Kanye West was before that video

You can scroll to about 4mins into the video to see the part that shows West as Knievel: